The Pell Grant will be underfunded by $5.5 billion next year. Tuition is going up 8% every year for a national average. Student debt is now the largest form of debt in the United States, surpassing credit card debt. 65,000 students are denied the right to an education every year based on their documentation status.
These somber facts and figures led to students walking out of classes and holding more than 75 rallies in 25 states yesterday, as higher education faces the largest crisis it has ever come up against. Students declared a National Day of Action to Defend Higher Education, organized in part by the Student Labor Action Project.
At Wichita State University, students created a guillotine with debt as the blade coming down on their heads. “Debt is cutting us off from the jobs we used to dream of having, like being a teacher,” said Aaron Rivers, a student at Wichita State. “It forces us into the corporate sector to find a higher paying job to pay off loans… and we don’t even know if these jobs exist.”
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